#55 - Hacktoberfest & Open Source from GeeksBlaBla

#55 - Hacktoberfest & Open Source

2 hour 46 minutes Posted Oct 18, 2020 at 12:56 am.

Introduction

Tell us about your first experience with Open Source.

What exactly is Open Source?

A brief history of Open Source and why does it exit.

Is Open Source necessarily attached to GitHub?

What are your thoughts on Microsoft acquiring GitHub?

GitLab Vs GitHub.

Why do large companies Open Source their tech?

Is it possible for someone to build a product from his Open Source project?

Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge.

Do Open Source projects have the most security vulnerabilities?

Backdoors and vulnerabilities in Open Source-based products.

What is Hacktoberfest?

The story behind Hacktoberfest spam PRs.

What Open Source is actually about?

Donations and Open Source.

What have you gained from Open Source as a contributor?

What is PR (Pull Request)?

Open Source in the Moroccan tech community.

What are the requirements that aspiring Open Source contributors should meet?

How to make a valuable contribution to an Open Source project for the first time?

What are the challenges of maintaining a big Open Source project?

What is the status of hackathons during Covid-19?

Last words for Open Source enthusiasts.

Wrap up and goodbye.

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Show notes

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discuss with our guests, Open Source and the much-hyped Hacktoberfest.

Guests

Mohamed Ez-zarghili

Abderrahim Soubai Elidrissi

Ismail Ghallou

Taoufik Abbassid

Notes

Links

Hacktoberfest

Open Source with Yassine Elouafi

Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge

Devc-Casa repository to learn about open source code contributions flow

List of awesome Moroccan things for developers

freeCodeCamp

Good First Issue

Issue Hub

Prepared and Presented by

Youssouf El Azizi

Meriem Zaid

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